The National Gandhi Memorial Trust (Template:Lang-hi) also called the Gandhi Qaumi Yaadgar Fund, is a memorial trust run by the Central Government of India established to commemorate the life of Mahatma Gandhi. It funds the maintenance of various places[1][2] associated with Mahatma Gandhi's activities during India's freedom movement, and is also a leading producer of literature on Gandhi and Gandhian thought[3] in India.
The initial 1949 public fund raising for the Trust was considered to be very successful, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote that the $130 million raised (equivalent to $Template:Inflation billion in Template:Inflation/year) was "perhaps the largest, spontaneous, mass monetary contribution to the memory of a single individual in the history of the world."[4]
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- ↑ In Shiv shahi, Aga Khan Palace has no place?.Template:Dead link
- ↑ No takers for the Mahatma’s memories. Deccan Herald(2004-04-19). Retrieved 2008-02-25. Template:Dead link
- ↑ Encyclopaedia of Indian literature, Volume 2{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Sahitya Akademi(1988)
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